Vietnam has the highest number of website server attacks in the world(394), leaving Russia (34 servers attacked) and India (19) farbehind.
This was according to Nguyen Anh Tuan, arepresentative from the southern branch of the Vietnam InformationSecurity Association.
He was speaking at a recentconference on internet security and applying information technology toagriculture in the southern province of Soc Trang.
Hesaid that cyber criminals have focused on bank cards, electroniccommerce and online payments, and transnational money laundering thisyear, adding that the criminals are now exploiting security gaps incloud computing applications to attack users, focusing on mobile phones.
Mobile phone users face three types of risks, which aremalware (accessing documents on mobile phones including information onusers' credit cards and Facebook passwords), personal spyware(collecting personal information such as messages, emails and contacts)and greyware (used by companies to collect information from users foradvertising).
Malware on mobile phones also created automatically paid calls and paid text messages and sent spam messages.
Soon,mobile phone users would face new risks such as advertising click fraud(clicking automatically on links of paid advertisements) and in-appbilling fraud (automatically buying applications at online shops).-VNA